Category: IOTA
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IOTA Foundation Enters Base Layer Race With ‘2.0’ Testnet
IOTA’s new testnet addresses the technical feature that nuked the blockchain-like network for nearly two weeks earlier this year.
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IOTA Network Down for 11 Days – Devs Claim Mainnet Will Be Operational Next Month
The IOTA network has been down for approximately 11 days and the IOTA Foundation doesn’t expect the mainnet to be reactivated until March 2. On February 14, our newsdesk reported on the beginnings of the IOTA outage, when the network status page indicated that it was down. The page still warns IOTA’s mainnet is “not…
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IOTA Network Still Down: How the Next Bitcoin Killer Screeched to a Halt
On February 13, the IOTA network came to a screeching halt and the IOTA Foundation reports that $1.6 million worth of the native currency was stolen. The following day, the IOTA network status page still shows the mainnet is “not operational” and the development team has found an “exploit related to the Trinity Wallet.” Also…
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4 ‘Bitcoin Contenders’ With Zero Use Cases and Barely Any Infrastructure
Cryptocurrency markets and the industry are extremely competitive and many users believe a single digital asset will reign someday, and that it may not be BTC. Over the last few years, many holders believe the assets they hold are bitcoin contenders with coins like IOTA, EOS, ADA, XRP, and XLM being popular choices. However many…
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2019 Google and Yahoo Searches for Bitcoin Decline Significantly
2019 was an interesting year for cryptocurrencies. Some would say it wasn’t as bad as the crypto winter in 2018 and others would note it wasn’t as great as bull run 2017. One thing’s for sure, ever since the all-time price highs, interest in cryptocurrencies has been waning. According to data from Google Trends and…
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Binance.US lists IOTA and its price continues consolidating
Binance.US announced that it will be listing IOTA on its retail platform for U.S. cryptocurrency investors. IOTA is a permissionless distributed ledger technology built by the IOTA Foundation. It consists of a stream of individual transactions entangled together. The protocol aims to facilitate the emerging machine-to-machine (m2m) economy of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) by creating a fee-less,…
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EOS, IOTA, and Chainlink showing mixed signals as Bitcoin consolidates
Altcoins are still in the spotlight while Bitcoin continues consolidating. Right now the markets are choppy, giving mixed technical signals. Here is the outlook for EOS, IOTA, and Chainlink. EOS EOS went through a 36 percent rally that took its price from $3.11 to $4.24 in the last two weeks. Now, a number of technical…
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IOTA launches $5 million Coordicide research grant program
IOTA announced a $5 million grant program to contribute to “Coordicide”-related research, the elimination of the project’s centralized coordinating node. IOTA is a cryptocurrency that aims to facilitate IoT transactions by creating a fee-less, highly scalable, asset transfer network. In May 2019, IOTA Foundation announced its push toward Coordicide—a planned upgrade for IOTA which removes…
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The Cryptocurrency Projects Pursuing a Path to Decentralization
Decentralization over time is an ethos that many crypto projects espouse. To date, however, few have completed this journey. Talking the talk is easy, but when it comes down to it, only a handful of projects are bold enough to walk the walk and willingly entrust their fate to the community. Also read: How 10…
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Trinity wallet review, IOTA Foundation’s newly released software wallet
The IOTA Foundation announced the full release of its Trinity wallet for mobile and desktop. The wallet simplifies the process for storing seeds and sending and receiving tokens. Read our full test and review of the wallet. The IOTA Foundation announced the full release of Trinity following the completion of an audit on the wallet…